Wow thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter as well as read it! Myself and the others who roleplayed the original are really happy you guys are enjoying this so much.

Hope you all enjoy episode 2 of Neo Gaim!

Episode 2 "Armored Rider? The Rider's Identity"

Ren charges forward with his new armor not taking time to think about the weird as he slices into the Inves. The Lock Dealer then runs past the Inves running out the door to safety as Ren follows up his attack slicing at the Inves's eyes. The Inves manages to block the attack with it's arms before slamming them on the ground with Ren jumping back.

"Fast," Ren thinks to himself looking down to see a sword attached to his belt. Ren quickly grabs the sword slicing back the Inves.

-East Dancing Stage-

Mamoru meanwhile begins boxing back his Inves keeping it at bay and away from the crowd of people behind him. The Inves then suddenly swings it's arm around towards Mamoru's left side catching him off guard, but still being able to block it with his oversized gauntlets.

"I won't let you!" Mamoru shouts punching it dead center in the face throwing it backwards. Mamoru would then putting his arms down accidently slicing down the blade on the Driver.

"Suiya! Kurumi Squash!~"

Suddenly Mamoru would begin to feel a sudden rise in the power of his fists. "Hell yeah!" Mamoru shouts charging forward and punching into the Inves causing the energy to be released creating an explosion sending Mamoru back! He could feel his head pounding as his transformation had been undone before looking down at the belt. "What is this thing?"

-Fruit Parlor-

Meanwhile Ren continues to slice at the Inves having it collide with a few tables with his last strike.

"This thing is really having a hard time with the dying part of dying," Ren scoffs to himself as he looks down to the blade on his belt before curiously slicing it again.

"Suiya! Ichigo Squash!~"

Suddenly Ren's daggers would glow with power causing Ren to grin slightly. He would throw both daggers forward at the Inves which cut straight through the Inves dragging it outside through a wall before suddenly exploding.

"It exploded," Ren thinks to himself taking off the Lock he had on cancelling his transformation with it fizzling out. He then looks around for the lock dealer who gave him the belt, but quickly realizing that the dealer had disappeared. "What is going on…"

-South Dancing Stage-

Meanwhile a relatively new team of Beat Riders gets on the stage, Team Neo Baron!

"Give it up for Neo Baron! They claim that Team Baron has grown to comfortable in their 1st place position and they seek to overthrow them and restore the name! Woah!" The DJ announces hyping up the crowd as the leader of Team Neo Baron, Sano, gets on stage glaring at his opponent, Shun from Team Gridon.

"You won't make it to Baron," Shun retorts with Sano scoffing as they both draw their Locks.

"Say Gridon, do you actually believe what you just said?" Sano asks tauntingly.

"If I didn't, I wouldn't have said it. Baron is far too good for some pretenders." Shun states pushing up his glasses. "You'd have no chance,"

"I guess we'll just have to see if I'm as weak as you think I am!" Sano exclaims as both unlock their Lockseeds. In the crowd there'd be a number of people watching but one in particular wishes he could do the same.

"It'd be a lot of unneeded work, but… for some reason I feel like I should be up there too." Kazuro would think to himself standing in the middle of the crowd not affiliated with a team himself.

-East Dancing Stage-

Meanwhile back with Mamoru, his team and the crowd would begin to poke out their heads to see what happened.

"The guy," Mamoru would suddenly think quickly running over to the guy who was attacked by the Inves and dropped the suitcase. "Sir, are you alright?"

"N-no, that belt… you used it?" The man asks with his breathing already sounding strained.

"Um yeah, is that a bad thing? I can give it back." Mamoru would offer as the man shook his head.

"It's yours now, use it… to protect." The last word was just a whisper as the man's life faded right in front of Mamoru's eyes.

"Hey Boss, are you alright!?" Todoroki calls out running over to check on Mamoru before then seeing the man.

"Call an ambulance please," Mamoru tells Todoroki as he gets up and walks off.

-Team Fang Base-

Meanwhile Akira manages to make it to her team's base only to find somebody outside.

"Hino!" Akira calls out surprised to see him at her base. She runs over quickly and excitedly. "What's going on? I haven't seen you around here in a little bit."

"Just passing through and thought I'd say hi to everyone. Glad I got to see you before popping back over to Charment though." Hino remarks with Akira nodding along.

"I bet the others were happy to see you, they still see you as their guardian." Akira remarks with Hino blushing.

"I just took some kids in and gave them a home, nothing to special about that." Hino states before turning to walk away. "Be careful Akira, things are getting weird with the Beat Riders. Today two monsters attacked Team Gaim and Knuckle."

"Wait what!?" Akira exclaims confused.

"Yeah, it was two Inves like things. Both exploded I think, but it's still pretty new information, so we don't have all the facts." Hino explains to Akira who was trying to process the fact that monsters exist. "Anyways, talk to you some other time, Charment has a delivery to make."

Akira waves goodbye looking downwards before heading inside to the Team Fang base.

-Outside Apartment Complex-

Meanwhile Ren walks alone contemplating all that had just occurred confused and worried about what it could mean.

"If they're aliens, are we technically forcing them to fight in an arena with our locks? What is this belt and who was that person who summoned that Inves?" Ren had been ranting like this for the past hour unsure of his own sanity in what he saw.

"Suiya! Peach Arms: Kaika Gin Suttoraiku!"

"Huh?" Ren turns knowing it wasn't his belt that made that sound as behind a white and peach cladded Rider stood with a pink handled broadsword in his hand. "Who are you?"

The Rider doesn't respond as he begins to walk forward towards Ren.

"What do you want!?" Ren shouts again with the rider drawing closer. Ren then hurriedly puts on his own belt causing pause for the person in front of him as Ren takes out the Ichigo Lockseed. He quickly places it on the belt and slices the blade. "Henshin!"

"Suiya! Ichigo Arms: Shushutto Spark!"

Ren draws his sword in one hand and one of his kunai in the other. The other rider suddenly charges at Ren slicing downwards onto him with the broadsword. Ren just barely manages to get his own sword up in time gritting his teeth as he does. The other rider however suddenly draws a second sword identical to Ren's slicing him across the stomach sending him skidding backwards. Ren backs up even more throwing a kunai at the new rider which is easily deflected by the rider's broadsword.

"I'm not going to ask again, who are you?" Ren asks still trying to act tough despite his stomach feeling like it was just skinned.

"Where did you get that belt?" The rider suddenly speaks to Ren's surprise.

"A lock dealer, why?" Ren replies with the person looking downwards before turning to leave. "Hey, we haven't finished our fight yet bastard!" Ren charges forward throwing multiple kunai and holding his sword out in front of him.

"Foolish," The rider mutters quickly swiping the blade on his belt 3 times.

"Suiya! Peach Sparking!~"

The rider turns around unleashing a wave of energy from his broadsword at the attacks and Ren suddenly throwing Ren back and causing him to de-transform due to the sheer force.

"Ggh!" Ren would let out as he laid on the ground badly hurt with the rider walking off. "Who the hell is this guy?"

As Ren passes out, halfway across the city another different battle is being waged.

-East Dancing Stage-

"LETS GIVE IT UP FOR TEAM FANG!" DJ Veno would hype up with the crowd roaring with cheers for the team as Akira and her team got out on stage.

"This is our stage now Knuckle!" Akira declares as Mamoru just sort of looks at her and her team. She then takes out her Lockseed, it being a Himawari Lock as she prepares to fight.

"Himawari, really? You're not even worth the fight if you're going to use such a weak lock." Mamoru retorts as Akira narrows her eyes at him.

"Fine, Misora hand me the special one." Akira commands with Misora nodding and reaching into her pockets taking on a Dragonfruit Lockseed that she then gives to Akira. Mamoru raises an eyebrow at this. "This better?"

"Much better," Mamoru states as he stands up to face her taking out his belt and placing it on his waist with it forming onto him.

"Huh? What's that?" Akira asks confused as Mamoru takes out his Kurumi Lockseed opening it and placing it on his belt.

"Kurumi! Lock on!" The belt sounds with the music beginning to play as Mamoru smirks.

"Henshin!" He states slicing down on the belt as the armor appear above him.

"Suiya! Kurumi Arms: Mister Knuckleman!" The belt sounds with the nut falling onto Mamoru's undersuit forming onto him as armor with the gauntlets then appearing on Mamoru's fists.

The crowd began to go crazy as images of him had quickly began to circulate all over the beat rider forums with Akira standing there with her jaw wide open.

"I have no idea what the hell you just did or if it's even legal, but I'm not backing down!" Akira declares as she raises the Dragonfruit Lock up to her face.

"Dragonfruit!"

"For the glory of the dragon!" Akira shouts as a tiny hologram Inves appears in front of Knuckle. The crowd was clearly in the favor of Mamoru in his new armored state. The Inves was barely up to Mamoru's knee as it started to try and attack him. "Seriously, is this legal?"

"ITS LEGAL!" The DJ sounds off with Akira audibly sighing letting down her guard as suddenly a piece of trash is throw by Team Knuckle at her hitting the Lockseed out of her hand.

The Inves suddenly grows up to human size breaking out of the holographic barrier surrounding it and Mamoru.

"Hey ru- WHAT THE HELL!?" Akira shouts beginning to back up with her team.

"Akira! Get your team out of here!" Mamoru shouts at her charging at the Inves and unleashing a flurry of punches towards it. The Inves would take the hits slicing at Mamoru with his claw which he staggers back from.

"I GOTCHA BOSS!" Todoroki shouts picking up a trash bin and throwing it at the Inves leaving it wide open.

"Thanks Todoroki!" Mamoru would then charge forward swiping down on his driver twice.

"Suiya! Kurumi Au Lait!~"

Mamoru would punch directly at the Inves's chest causing it to explode. However, Mamoru would reel back for a second after cancelling his transformation looking down at his hand which was bruised.

The crowd would suddenly be running back excitedly.

"WOO GO KNUCKLE!"
"THAT WAS SO AWESOME!"
"WAY TO GO KNUCKLE!"

"GIVE IT UP FOR ARMORED RIDER KNUCKLE!" The DJ would announce giving him a name that Mamoru thought fit along with his team.

Akira would watch slightly disgusted before Mamoru suddenly put up his hand to silence them.

"This is not a win for me, this is a win for Team Fang. Knowing a fan of ours would throw trash at the opponent, it sickens me!" The crowd was dead silent as Mamoru began to walk off with his team. "Team Fang keeps this stage, and their lock."

Akira would hear this scoffing to herself. "All this time and he still doesn't get it. I don't need him looking after me and my team."

Meanwhile off on his own, the peach rider stands in a laboratory.

"So, it's confirmed?" A voice asks.

"Yes, somehow the Sengoku Drivers made it out onto the street. I checked it personally." The Rider would suddenly take the lock off his Driver with his transformation fizzling out to reveal Takeshi Sonozaki, Akira's brother.

Reviews Being Reviewed:

In Response to Gadget the Critic:

9292 (Mamoru) - "HOLY SHIT! TELL HIM TO CONTACT ME FOR AN AUTOGRAPH!"

In Response to Night Rogue:

Silver (Akira) - "I don't have a family relationship that's anything like what the Sonozaki's have. Also I'm definitely not dating a jock."

Cast:

BinaryAnomaly - Ren Myoukouin (Gaim)

9292 - Mamoru Setsusetsu (Knuckle)

Silver - Akira Sonozaki

KingofHearts - Takeshi Sonozaki (Zangetsu)

Me - Kazuro Tema

Geariko - Shun Nakamura

Aki - Sano Kosuke

TimeWatchMan - Hinomaru Kazaharu

ParisParadoxPerson - Everybody else

Credits:

ParisParadoxPerson - GM and original writer for Kamen Rider Neo Gaim

TOEI - For making Kamen Rider Gaim